The last song in Music Room One

[@benjaminsturgeon2147]

PAUL you’ve had it up for less than 30 minutes and hundreds apparently interested in your ‘blathering’ . We love you, because of it , not in spite of it!! Keep Blathering!!

[@davidbaxter6843]

Hello Paul, one of your best videos ever. Thank you for the honesty and emotions you share with all of us. You feel like family.

[@TraderDan58]

As you sat there listening to Arnies favorite piece Im sure he was listening too. Good friends are just like that.

[@timbathras2660]

Thank you, Paul, for sharing this journey with us. Your stories and anecdotes are always enthralling and passionate. Best of luck in the new music room!

[@marcus1970]

Paul, emotional moments for you.... Thank you for sharing with those of us that care.

[@arkman8109]

Very good Paul, love the roaming story's. I am 62 ad talk and roam with my thoughts as I am heading to the point of the story. My kids tell me not to change, that makes the story more personnel. Love the speakers and the new building, one day I may get out your way to have a listen. I have sleep on a water bed for almost 40years and being in any other bed is awful. Not to mention being away from my own Altec based creations. Thank you Paul, I have learned much from you.

[@zeram01]

Thanks for allowing us to be “there” with you during your music room transition. Great choice for a send off piece.

[@scottstrang1583]

Don't change a thing. I like hearing hearing your stories.

[@danriggs1913]

I've heard what you achieved in Music Room 1, and it was magnificent- can't wait to hear what you do in the successor!

[@johnwatt3221]

Hey Paul ! Greetings from Australia ! Thanks so much for sharing this.... loved the story.... and even with crappy speakers in my laptop could clearly hear just how AMAZING the IRS are ! I hope you enjoy them just as much in their new location....

[@karlbartelt3939]

3rd, Thanks for sharing these special Sound moments that helped make you in to the person we come to listen to.

[@soniclab-cnc]

End of an era and the beginning of a new one. RIP Arnie. What a nice sentiment ending on one of his favorite tracks.

[@First-Last-108]

Thank you for sharing! I've enjoyed following your journey through your videos and it's nice to feel like a tiny part of the PS Audio family.

[@maximum805]

Mr.McGowan, I've enjoyed your videos all these many years since the very first one, to this last one. I get a kick every time you mention Harry Parsons of the absolute sound, in which I am a big fan of. Your fondness and affinity for the Infinity Reference is understandable, and I for one enjoyed this last video so much. I wish you great success in your new location. I look forward to your next installment. God bless

[@wildcat1065]

End of an era is always sad but providing the new room sounds just as good you will soon forget Music room 1.

[@adepease6399]

Hi Paul, I would consider myself an audiophile even though my system is mostly entry level Cambridge Audio stuff with an old pair of keffs. Very refreshing to see a successful guy not hiding the fact that he had a life back in the day. Cool vids.

[@paulstubbs7678]

I was listening away to you making your selection decisions (before you hit the play button) thinking I'll grab a copy and play it here - then you let it rip, and I knew for sure that I had well and truly bitten off more than I could chew. - so I'm definitely not going to even think of trying it.

[@SK-Elin]

We love you ! thanks for sharing this special moment.

[@lloyd.8272]

Just listening to that short clip through my rubbish headphones I can just tell that there is so much dynamics and effortless power. I would love to hear this in person.👍🏼

[@Malangsufi]

I love videos like this, sometimes gears take away from the important stuff, which is forming a bond with the audience.

[@Rabazoline397]

What a sound on the end, what a beautiful depth...one day PS components will arrive in my room.

[@PurpleDragonGuy1]

OMG, Paul that sounded amazing even over my single speaker on my Galaxy Note 8! I would probably come to tears if I was sitting in a room listening to them with the lights dimmed!🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@dynodin81]

Wow! Thank you for that moment. Enjoyed it very much.

[@hi-fihaven2257]

Great video sir! I was about 13 when you had your experience with H.P., and was already reading The Absolute Sound!

[@vangmx]

Thanks for the story. I really enjoyed listening to it. And my God I’m just on my iPhone’s stock earphones but those speakers sound phenomenal. I can’t even imagine how they sound like in person. Probably would cry. Anyway good luck, happy holidays and see you in 2019!

[@JPAudio22]

You have a gift for storytelling Paul, a new chapter begins!

[@luctardif8444]

Thanks Paul for this sharing !

[@airgead5391]

Paul, that sounded really, really, really good! I understand now what you said about effortless linear scaling of the sound as I would call it. Also the imaging is stable with "meat on the bones". It can take a half year to two years before it sound so good again in the new music room, so don't be scared as the sound will not meet your expectations from the offset, it even can be quite far off.

[@realNikoCousin]

Please never stop talking... I would love to come visit. Can't wait for that day!

[@terrywho22]

Very touching and a great story. Best wishes on the new music room!!

[@CD-sk1ur]

Thank you for your story, and video. ☮peace, 🖤love, & ☯️harmony.

[@jazz_vinyl]

Good management of surface noise is primarily due to the construction of the cartridge, budget Nagaokas can do a similar trick.

[@arisaga822]

Thank you so much for sharing that with us.

[@erolsonderegger6425]

Really nice tribute Paul.

[@danielmarshall4587]

Sir, that is dedication moving those speakers. Moving them once that is, this is going to be your second time.

[@maximum805]

Great video. I always enjoy your advise and your

[@andres77fj]

I would cry just by listening to this system

[@doylewayne3940]

Supertramp...Crime of the century , wow thanks Paul

[@danielhillwick8430]

Thank you Paul!

[@IceBullit]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@jcansus]

Even on my cheap ass earphone I can feel the magnitude of the sound. Awesome!

[@pappo666]

Wow the emotion over a pair of speakers i never seen anyone love a pair as much as the love i have for mine, im sure those are leagues better then what i built my self my friends thought i was crazy when i put 2 15" subs inside them almost 2.5 m tall (8.2 ft) but they are the perfect sound to me many of my friends said i should sell them get rid of them they are to big to bulky you name it i heard it so seeing someone share the love for a set of speakers is beautiful

[@simonlai]

So wonderful that I just wish you'd have his added to your 99% True, tks Paul!

[@eddiegalindo1770]

I would be OK if you made an hour long video just talking about sound. I love your honesty about the "joint" . I just got a new idea about a CD rack from your video. Thank you PAUL . How fortunate you are.

[@wayneday3116]

Great choice of Mahler's 3rd. Wish I could have been there to hear it with you, Paul. Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra's performance is a spiritual experience. The video is available on KZbin.

[@MrCatalysis101]

What is it about speakers that creates such a special relationship with them. I love my Thiels and Quads just like you love your IRS V's Paul. I totally get the emotions you're going through, especially as they are such a strong link to your dear friend Arnie.

[@GjbMcN]

Hey Paul as a coincidence you have two things in common with Paul Keating one of the retired Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth of Australia is both an Audiophile AND a very big Mahler fan. One of his biographers/speech writer Don Watson (Confessions of a Bleeding Heart) Don recounts the story of how PM Keating used to drag senior staff into a big listening room that he had set up in the official prime ministerial residence just to listen. The story goes that he also had a REALLY BIG PAIR ......of speakers. You should reach out to him PM Keating is quite a character and is the kind of personality that likely to be chuffed to chat audiophilia with you. Don Watson and his Don’s books are also worth the contact as he is a bit of Grammarian and he does audiobooks also he read his Biography of Keating himself and has a great dry Ozzie voice.

[@tothemax324]

3 things in common...both named Paul :)

[@dougg1075]

Those Infinity’s would look great in a Frank Lloyd Wright home. Falling Water maybe.

[@cactus00001]

Ooh, Doug, yeah the view would be sweet from FW, but i don't think the speakers would appreciate the climate changes -- I hear that the State of PA can be pretty doggone damp for long periods..(?!) ( Youngstown, OH native, me)

[@markgallagher0000]

bless ya.that was very sad ,thank-you for sharing your special moment.mk

[@phrtao]

There is nothing like moving rooms to make you appreciate your HiFi all over again. So pleased you chose Mahler's 3rd Symphony - I would love to hear it on your system (maybe we could sneak in Mahler's 1st as well and a few thousand other recordings !!) A bit geeky (may upset KZbin as well) but could you tell us who is performing please. If I like a piece I love to hear all the recordings and performances I can to keep it fresh (some you hate and others you love) . I have a feeling this is probably one of the greats 😁

[@johnanderson8096]

I wonder if Paul will allow me to smoke a "FATTY" in Music Room Two, if I make the long trip to PS Audio???

[@ghostrecon3214]

LMK, ill join you!

[@dougg1075]

I’m in

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

Down.

[@kman7222]

I'm in also, but must be listening to Pink Floyd's - Welcome to the Machine First, then whatever else there after

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

@@kman7222 Gonna pull that one up in a few minutes thanks.

[@OrganNLou]

Gotta love a guy who enjoys Mahler. My father introduced me to the music of Mahler and I have been a fan ever since. Listening to Magnepans with a hybrid amplifier, and playing Mahler is pure heaven.

[@johnbaker6461]

That really is a special recording. I've listened to clips of it through Blue Coast. All of the MTT Mahler recordings are good, but I feel especially moved by the 3rd and the 7th.

[@pascaltonton9000]

Hi Paul, please, don't be sad, a new story is beginning.

[@christianscott6963]

Has PS Audio ever dabbled in the idea of making guitar amps? There's a company called Phil Bass who did similarly. He started in Hi Fi audio and now offers amazing solutions for bass players, and musicians.

[@jworthe]

I'm not crying, you're crying.

[@wahidtrynaheghugh260]

They sound full and real coming out of my iPhone 6 speaker (as full and real as it can be coming out of a crap speaker). I can’t possibly imagine what it would be like to really be there. I think the sheer size and power of the sound would disintegrate my mortal flesh.

[@twochaudiomg2578]

What did you replace them with ? No Wilson Please.

[@Hello-Earth-369]

Perfect , please take a video from new room with testing of this music , please take more time for music listening on the video . Thanks

[@catified2081]

Well done!

[@einsteindrieu5117]

I wonder if you ever listen to Emerson Lake & Palmer ? Nice System Paul.

[@catified2081]

Love prog rock! Very interesting music.

[@scottyo64]

Amazing that it sounded so good on my phone!

[@KarlHamilton]

I fucking love Paul.

[@Borednlonely]

what piece ws that at the end? i am not familiar with ochestral music

[@inigomontoya6806]

I really wanted you to play "The Look of Love", but I guess I will just have to play it on my system!

[@theshootindutchman]

Beautiful😁

[@jamoyme4475]

I can’t imagine how it sounds listening on that chair

[@cp070476]

I hope all goes well with the move! Nothing worse than relocating a system pressing the play button and it sounds worse than it did before... Damn....

[@garysmith8455]

Very touching Paul.....I look forward to all that will be forthcoming from the new PS Audio building and it's fine listening rooms and DSD control room... Which Mahler recording is your final listen and tribute to AN ?

[@Paulmcgowanpsaudio]

The Tillson Thomas San Francisco recordings.

[@showmak]

Hi Paul, how much you paid for them?

[@sgthjennings]

Can watch these videos all d**n day!!

[@gotham61]

That must have been some great pot, because I'm wondering if it may have dulled your memory of that evening a bit, LOL! The original IRS first appeared in 1980, and HP's initial review of it came out in TAS #19 in September of that year. By the end of 1975 there has only been about six issues of the magazine. Perhaps what you saw was one of the IRS' predecessors like the Quantum Reference, which was kind of IRS-like in many ways, or the hybrid system HP put together using the Infinity midrange/tweeter section with Magnepan Tympani woofer panels. Or maybe your memory is of a later trip?

[@Paulmcgowanpsaudio]

I am not good at years so likely it happened then just after they were launched and my recollection of the year was incorrect. I know Harry had one of the first pair and he had it well before release but that would likely have been 1979 or 80. Thanks for the correction.

[@SJMessinwithBoats1]

Who needs to be exact? It was good Leaf I'm sure. Could you even certify that leaf even had that magic ingredient? I was inspired once on top of Mammoth Mountain back in those mid 70's. Don't go down from the top!! its way steeper than it looks from midway!! Took me a half hour just to survive skidding my butt down that face!

[@gotham61]

@@Paulmcgowanpsaudio I apologize if I came across sounding like a jerk. That was not my intent. I was just trying to sleuth out the actual timeline here.

[@Paulmcgowanpsaudio]

@@gotham61 Not at all and I appreciate the help.

[@BoudewijnvanHouten]

It couldn't be even the QRS (Harry replaced the woofer section with the bass-section of the Magnepan Tympany ID) or QLS because they came out in 1978 and 1976 respectively. In 74 Infinity still had the Servo Statik as their top of the line speaker.

[@musicman257]

God would I love to be able to afford a pair. Hey paul in the new room I would love to here a demo Of comfortably numb would to here that solo Great speakers!!!!

[@419gcs]

Paul AKA mr. Rogers of audio AKA the grandfather of audio wisdom you got the best stories "I don't know maybe we smoke too much pot"

[@foxmatte]

Wow.... what a live-sounding high-tower piece of sound box..

[@georgeshaffer4686]

What performance is that?

[@vwy713]

Thanks

[@ZERO-CAPACITANCE]

Absolutely love you in the material!!please buy a lapel microphone

[@MrMarantzman]

Please put up the next part as soon you can...I think I speak for most of ur fans of this channel in saying we don't care if the video is more then 20 or 30 or 40 minutes......

[@Paulmcgowanpsaudio]

I'll try and have it up before the weekend.

[@blitzbbffl]

Very nice! 😊

[@cheungchungkiu2641]

Hey Paul I really heard that the IRS sounds great even though I heard it from my computer speakers.

[@Shalmaneser1]

Did that speaker wobble when you touched it?

[@moonlight-kh6uz]

unfortunately, resonances can be heard. I would place these in a very, very wide room

[@loendsti]

what is the sound track did you play? mallard's third?

[@Pedroarom]

Mahler's 3rd symphony.

[@charleswillis9077]

I heard a pair of these 30 odd years ago!!!!

[@carmenandthedevil2804]

I had them on my price list back in 85.

[@MrDac0964]

That sounded amazing even on my iPhone but i’m sure this is nowhere near compared to being in that room. Just wish you played it a little bit longer... 😄

[@johnkristian]

What recording of mahler's no 3 was that?

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

It sounded a lot like this one to me. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3Lad6iqfsihqLc

[@Paulmcgowanpsaudio]

Tillson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony

[@wahidtrynaheghugh260]

WHY WERE THEY LISTED FOR SALE

[@swinde]

8:15 ... Damn, these sound just like my computer speakers! I wonder why that is? ... Oh wait!

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

You need to learn how to listen to your computer speakers. Tonally they may sound the same, but can't you hear the spacial difference that is coming from those same speakers? Put on some low bit rate mp3, and then listen to that same piece again and tell me your ears can't hear the difference through the same speakers.

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

@@DodgyBrothersEngineering It almost sounds like you're "taking the piss" as they say at Swinde but what you say is actually true to a scary extent. I was listening through my little mini monitors with a sub and damn! Then I brought up the same performance on youtube and while it was ok it was not the same.

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

@@InsideOfMyOwnMind it is never going to be remotely similar to being in the same room Paul is in, and it will take losses all the way i.e. from camera to file, to reconfigured YT upload, to speakers you play through, but two things remains the same... Clarity and spacial awareness. These properties can be distinguished regardless of the multiple changes of format. For example lets say you set your mobile phone up on a stand to record 5 foot from a seat. You sit down and recite a poem at a given volume level. You repeat the same test this time with your hand in front of your mouth. Then you repeat the same test with two people reciting the poem in tandem. Some would have you believe that because it is recorded on the same phone, by the same person, all being uploaded to YT, and played back through the same set of speakers, that you will be unable to distinguish between the three recordings. I say this is utter garbage because as humans our brains are capable of differentiating between, someone speaking with their hand in front of their mouth and multiple people speaking. If you have half decent ears (and had exposure to some good high end audio equipment in person for reference) you will be able to pick out many of the subtle cues that tell you how those speakers just played regardless of what crap speakers you just played it back on.

[@donaldheitger6731]

Let's all fit in there and smoke a lot of father ones.

[@swinde]

Dodgy Brothers Engineering ... Of course I was really just making a light hearted joke. I remember back in the 1970's there would be commercials on TV raving about a new model color TV and showing the picture and telling us to see how great the color was on the set. Of course I was watching the "color" on my set and it could have been a black and white receiver. My computer is hooked up to a Dynaco PAT-4 and Marantz power amplifier with JBL Century L-100 speakers, so it actually sounds good, but obviously I am not experiencing the Infinity IRS in any way.

[@janinapalmer8368]

Such a sentimental guy aren't you ... very sweet ... I'm very much like that too ! What will be the first song or piece of music to greet the new walls of MR1 .. You STILL haven't replaced the dust cap on those servo speakers ..!! That's a must !! Air can escape through the voice coil gap ..!

[@garysmith8455]

I have also wondered about those missing caps of many months. Since those are sealed cabinets, they are VERY integral to keeping things air tight!!!

[@ixfxi]

the dust cap is just a dust cap, it does not effect the driver performance

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

I say play the same thing because it is most fresh in your mind. Then I'm also torn. It won't sound the same. It may even be better but one is inclined to second guess it and be disenchanted by it.

[@janinapalmer8368]

ixfxi that's bullshit ... there is a small air gap past the spider and voice coil .. I know it's small but those cabinets have 6 x 12" woofers in them and that would create a considerable amount of back pressure and suction past the voice coil ..!

[@janinapalmer8368]

InsideOfMyOwnMind .. if it's perfect then there should BE no difference ..!!

[@20CycleMonger]

Well, there's one location off my bucket list : Goodbye MR #1 :-( ....and you never listened to the phono preamp on Harry's system? Shame, you might have learned something and got to come back for the MK2 mods ;-) I just got a Mahler boxed set. Thanks for the suggestion

[@fookingsog]

@Paul ...if you want the Dusty Springfield remake, I'm kinda partial to this one!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHKvlJV3ntybkLs

[@mickbroad2059]

Sounds to me like you have downloaded from the drive direct to KZbin, speakers not even mic'd up all the best with the move.

[@clittle1559]

Music room 1 has been on my bucket list requesting stairway to heaven ...

[@soniclab-cnc]

C Little pretty sure there is a sign on the door “no stairway to heaven”

[@clittle1559]

@@soniclab-cnc I get it ,to each is own everybody has to have a dream.!

[@SJMessinwithBoats1]

I like the Jammin' in the "stairway"

[@lovejago]

Huffin Smokeing pot???? oh my lord Paul !!… never in a millon years would I have Thunk!!!!….. now after hearing that I can tell my in laws I still smoke pot!!!..lolololololol This is why we love you Paul!!!!!! your open and honest!!!!!!!!!

[@periurban]

What does Rammstein sound like on those things?

[@mutantbaby1672]

Was that MTT?

[@quicktastic]

Why throw them away? Just set them up in the new building.

[@andrewmccorkell652]

I think thats the plan.

[@musicman8270]

Yeah. Toss em out, they only cost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. Five times the cost of my hovel.

[@deskelly9313]

cool vid

[@brianbumgardner8704]

Mine would be Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here.